Microsoft announced a number of services adjustment in response to unexpectedly high demand

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide causes millions of people to work from home, and this number is expected to increase rapidly in the near future due to the epidemic situation. extremely complicated developments.

This situation makes the demand for accessing and using Microsoft cloud-based services soar, many times higher than usual. For example, according to Microsoft statistics, the number of Teams users immediately increased by 12 million in just one week, putting great pressure on the whole system.

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Facing such a situation, Microsoft will gradually impose some restrictive measures on its services to meet the increased usage demand. In the MC207439 translation recommendation, sent to Office 365 customers today, Redmond said it would apply some new restrictions to its cloud-based services, specifically as follows:

For OneNote users, integration with Teams will be in read-only mode, meaning that users will have to access OneNote separately if they want to make any changes to notebooks, instead of having You can edit directly from Teams like before. Note this policy does not apply to users of Education packages. In addition, Microsoft also changed the synchronization frequency and download limits for OneNote attachments for files smaller than 100MB.

For SharePoint, Microsoft is rearranging certain backend activities, which may affect services such as data migration. Besides, the video streaming quality (resolution) will also be reduced to keep the bandwidth stable. Speaking of video, Microsoft Stream will turn off the user's timeline for new videos, and the default resolution for video uploads will be changed from 1080p to 720p.

These are temporary policies that Microsoft applies to the above services. In the future, depending on the actual situation, Redmond Company will have plans to remove or add other restrictive policies. Quantrimang will update as soon as it has the latest information, please pay close attention.